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Lennart Nilsson, an innovative Swedish photographer whose micro-cameras bared some of life's previously impenetrable and breathtaking moments..
Lennart Nilsson
Swedish photographer (1922–2017)
For other people named Lennart Nilsson, see Lennart Nilsson (disambiguation).
Lennart Nilsson (24 August 1922 – 28 January 2017)[1] was a Swedishphotographer noted for his photographs of humanembryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography.
This article takes a brief look at the photography of Lennart.
He was also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.
Biography
Lennart Nilsson was born in Strängnäs, Sweden. His father worked at the railway as a repairman[2] and gave Lennart Nilsson a camera when Lennart Nilsson was twelve years old.
When he was around fifteen, he saw a documentary about Louis Pasteur that made him interested in microscopy. Within a few years, Nilsson had acquired a microscope and was making microphotographs of insects.
In his late teens and twenties, he began taking a series of environmental portraits with an Icoflex Zeiss camera, and had th